How do you like the odds?
Most Men
Number of men per 100 women
- UAE 214
- Qatar 208
- Kuwait 150
- Bahrain 132
- Oman 128
- Saudi 117
- Greenland 113
- Jordan 108
- Afghanistan 107
- China/Pakistan 106
Most Women
men per 100 women
- Latvia 84
- Estonia/Ukraine 85
- Armenia/Lesotho/Lithuania/Russia 87
- Belarus 88
- Hong Kong 89
- Aruba/Georgia/Martinique 90
- Hungary/Virgin Islands 91
- Khazakhstan/Moldova Puerto Rico 92
- Croatia 93
This goes some way in explaining why there are so many East European hookers in Dubai...
It does appear that God is playing a bit of a joke though doesn't it?
Corruption Index
1= Scummy (hang on to your wallet)
10=Angels (butter wouldn't melt)
Most corrupt places
- Bangladesh/Haiti 1.5
- Nigeria 1.6
- Chad 1.7
- Azerbaijan/Paraguay 1.9
- Angola/Congo/Cote D'Ivory/Georgia/Indonesia/tajikstan 2.0
Least corrupt
- Finland 9.7
- New Zealand 9.6
- Denmark/Iceland 9.5
- Singapore 9.3
- Sweden 9.2
- Switz 9.1
- Norway 8.9
- Australia 8.8
- Netherlands 8.7
- UK 8.6
- Canada 8.4
Notice anything?
Most of these places are bloody cold. What is it about snow and honesty?
The Scandos come off pretty well. I can attest that the paranoia surrounding even the appearance of any sort of graft is taken to extremes in this part of the world. Customers insist on paying for anything, even a take away coffee. You get odd looks holding the door open for someone.
Health
Life expectancy
World wide
Men 64.3
Women 68.7
Adult literacy 79%
Highest life expectancy
- Andora 83.5
- Japan 82.8
- Hong Kong 82.2
- Iceland 81.4
- Australia 81.1
- Sweden 80.8
- Canada/Macau 80.7
- Israel 80.6
- Italy 80.6
31. UK 79
40. US 77.9
Notice anything about the top 4?
Does it smell fishy?
Does it taste fishy?
It most assuredly does.
Lowest Life expectancy
- Swaziland 29.9
- Botswana 33.9
- Lesotho 34.3
- Zimbawe 37.3
- Zambia 39.1
- Central African Republic 39.5
- Malawi 41.1
- Equitorial Guinea 41.5
- Mozambique
- Angola
As you can see Africa takes a hammering. Perhaps the next set of stats may shed some light.
HIV/AIDS-prevalence amongst the population 15-49 (%)
- Swaziland 38.8
- Botswana 37.3
- Lesotho 28.9
- Zimbabwe 24.6
- Namibia 21.3
- South Africa/Zambia 15.6
- Malawi/13.5
- Malawi 14.2
- Central African Republic 13.5
- Mozambque 12.2
All in Africa.
In fact the top 20 are in Africa.
These countries, already too poor to provide drugs for AIDS sufferers, are losing segments of their populations desperately needed for economic development.
The spiral of poverty looks set to continue.
There are more depressing stats regarding Aids in Africa but the above is clear enough.
We (all of us),need to do something to help. What is happening is tragic and preventable. Money is desperately needed.
Smokers
Average annual consumption of cigarettes per day, per head of population
- Greece 8.6
- Bulgaria 7.4
- Macedonia 7.1
- Bosnia 6.6
- Japan 6.4
- Spain 6.2
- South Korea 6.1
- Slovenia 6
- Albania 5.8
- Czech Republic/ Estonia 5.7
Talk about second hand smoke.
Think of all those babies and toddlers in Greece puffing away in the nursery......
Lung Cancer
Deaths per 100,000 of population
- Hungary 79
- Belgium 67.5
- Denmark 66.2
- United Kingdom 63.3
- Croatia 58.3
- Italy 57
- Netherlands 56.9
- USA 56.7
- Canada 56.6
- CzechRepublic 55.9
- Greece 53.6
Why aren't these two lists more similar?
Booze
Beer
liters consumed per head
- Czech Republic 157
- Ireland 141.2
- Germany 117.5
- Austria 110.6
- Luxembourg 101.6
- UK 101.5
- Belgium/Denmark 96.2
- Australia 91.5
- Slovakia 88.4
- Venezuela 82.1
- USA 81.6
The Czechs have an unfair advantage, so no surprise there. You have to hand it to the yanks for drinking the swill that passes for beer there.
Wine
- Luxembourg 66.1
- France 48.5
- Italy 47.5
- Portugal 42
- Switzerland 40.9
- Hungary 37.4
- Argentina 34.6
- Greece 33.8
- Uruguay 33.3
- Denmark 32.6
Not really many surprises, EXCEPT, Luxembourg??? Denmark?? Switz?
I can't remember the last time I sat down in a restaurant and ordered a nice Luxy red, or a spirited Danish sparkling white or a robust Swiss chocolate rose?
Can you?
Where are the Aussies? I guess they export it all as they're too busy drinking beer.
Exporting to Luxembourg, Denmark and Switzerland I guess.
Litres of Pure Alcohol consumed per head
- Luxembourg 12.6
- Hungary 11.4
- Czech republic 11
- Ireland 10.8
- Germany 10.2
- Spain 10
- Portugal /UK 9.6
- Denmark 9.5
- Austria/France 9.3
- Cyprus /Switzerland 9
Any comments?
One last one
Internet
Average number of hours spent per week
- Taiwan 12.6
- Thailand 11.7
- Spain 11.5
- Hungary 10.9
- China 10.8
- Hong Kong 10.7
- Poland/Turkey 10.6
- Brazil 10.5
- Egypt 10.3
- Philippines 9.8
17. France/USA/UK 8.8
20. Canada 8.3
Are you as astonished by this as me?
This day in History
1914 Opening of the Panama Canal
1947 Independence of India
1969 Opening Day of the Woodstock Music Festival
1987 Canning officially banned in the UK
1998 Terrorist bomb kills 29 and injuring 220 in Omagh Northern Ireland.
Yesterday
1908 The UK hosted the first International beauty pageant in Folkstone Kent
1945 VJ day celebrated marking the allies victory of Japan
that's it for today. Comments welcome. Next post from the Middle East
Hope all is well wherever you are.
T
2 comments:
(Hey T? Feel free to edit, delete, or forget this epistle of a comment.)
Indeed, those suffering from AIDS in the African continent can be helped, but not by money. What if we apply the lifeboat ethics in analyzing Africa’s health dilemma? Let’s suppose that the lifeboat represents Africa, bobbing along the massive ocean that is HIV/AIDS. The boat is sinking fast as water is quickly filling from a hole in its hull. What to do, where to go? Land if too far distant.
The cost of the cocktail of drugs needed to alleviate the suffering of an AIDS patient is steep. In contrast, the cost of prevention will be nothing. If the task of halting the spread of HIV is pursued as aggressively as the virus/disease is attacking its victims, there would be little need for a massive movement to help those ailing. Plug the hole, weather the storm until dry land is reached.
I am not advocating the idea that the suffering of those with AIDS is negligible; to do so is ethically objectionable. However much we all would like to provide AZT, protease inhibitors and the like to every AIDS victim in Africa, it’s just not going to happen. Pharmaceutical giants and politicians are legitimized illicit lovers. The promise of grossly discounted or, dare I say, donated meds is but a dream. Commerce and power will always reduce altruistic endeavors to arbitrary and discriminatory decisions.
Suppose we focus more of our energy on the ones who are healthy, so as they can help us care for those who cannot care for themselves? What do you think? Is it a viable plan of action?
Hey T, what does the flight attendant instruct you to do in case of a reduced O2 emergency, and you’re traveling with a child? It kinda creeps me out, but who gets the mask first? Same scenario, don’t you think?
By the way, some of us swill Stella Artois. As for the smoke in the nursery… how many half-smoked butts did you squash today, hmm?
I’ll be quiet for a few months as this semester is going to be a bi*#h! Convenient, huh, feeling as I’m about to be called some nasty names. Take care and watch that back... and I know Jess will stay healthy, safe, bonny and blithe.
Hey T - can you find the statistics on how many pairs of button-fly levi's were sold in the past year - - and which countries purchase the most....starting to think about next year's vacation plans! LOL!
Great to read you posting again -- hope all is well in your world!
Always - KC
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